(Due to sudden miracles I am now unkillable)

the philosophy of "losing is fun" ends up being less about how the game actually works and more about setting expectations for approaching it. I think a lot of people get hung up on it, but the most important thing you need to remember for enjoying permadeath games is that, at the end of the day, you've got to find it as funny when you lose as you do when you win [going too far] this is also broadly applicable to life

at risk of making it less clear, a lot of roguelikes are less about the accumulation of a great many important things than they are about presenting you an endless series of interesting gamestates which can only be fully enjoyed by allowing them to exist in their own context. they're all things that happen and cease to happen, but you are also playing as a thing that happens and ceases to happen. it's richer for you winning or losing, shallower for you trying to preserve something beyond the moment where it actually exists

they’re taking our fuckig hags from us dude. we have to protect our crones. i’m so serious